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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1963
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is issued daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation at 425 Main Street Bennington Vermont. The statement notes the newspaper's regular publishing pattern and corporate address.
The Presidents Science Advisory Committee led by Jerome Wiesner issues a report declaring pesticides potentially more dangerous to humans than radioactive fallout. It vindicates Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, urges extensive research, and calls for safer, more targeted chemicals through fundamental studies.
The piece criticizes pesticide industry responses to Silent Spring, noting a trade magazine forecast that public concern would fade. It argues that government must intervene to protect the public due to private industry failings, launching a broad departmental research effort on the ecological and health consequences of spraying poisonous substances.
After a Hyannis Port meeting between Prime Minister Pearson and President, the two nations pledged mutual respect for differing views and emphasized practical talks on continental defense. They praised Canada’s diplomats and warned against overreliance on policy, while noting a broader need for Canadian participation in hemispheric affairs and U.S. investment to Canadianize ownership and management of firms.
The narrator recalls the old S S Mae and the Puerto Rico now sailing as Motorships of Puerto Rico Inc with Captain Robert E Hudgins. The trip begins at Port Newark under northern winds and a wary bay scene. Ambrose Lightship signals guide the crossing toward Puerto Rico at 164 degrees and 14 knots.
A presidential emergency board recommends a universal rule for firemen on trains to balance cost cuts and job security. Diesel passenger trains would keep one engineer and one fireman per cab, while most diesel freight trains would merge firemen with brakemen leaving two in each cab. The report urges retraining and education benefits funded by carriers and public funds for displaced workers, stressing a duty to ease technological unemployment and preserve dignity. The piece cites opinions from Ellicottville Post Progress Grocer and El Reno American as afterthought quotes.
Hal Boyle notes Lawrence of Arabia and The Great Escape defy love interest norms. The Great Escape chronicles 600 Allied airmen in a daring prison camp breakout with 76 escapees and 50 recaptured men shot by Nazis. John Sturges emphasizes realistic war depictions over glamor and romance, advocating truth over sentiment.
Alice M Edwards of Bennington letters The Banner criticizing the Castro regime as a violation of the Monroe Doctrine. She cites subversion and guerrilla warfare as a danger to North and South America, arguing Cuba’s 1962 context repeats betrayals of liberation.
A Dartmouth College study, with Hanover and Norwich cooperation, details post spraying bird mortality. Since April 16, 51 Hanover and one Norwich dead birds have been found, many with signs of acute DDT poisoning and rapid death.
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